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Last evening I visited Momma and got to chatting with her nurse, "Betty." Betty was checking her Twitter account -- something she said she does every so many days to every other week or so. It seems she'd picked up some 150+ new followers since her last foray onto Twitter, and when I encountered her, she was clicking through them, so to speak, to determine whether she wanted to follow them as well.
Now, I'm not a Twitter member; thus foreign to me is anything beyond occasionally clicking on a tweet in a news article or an email I receive. The notion that folks must maintain their accounts and contacts is self-evident; however, the prospect of clicking through some 150 profiles and, based on what appears to be the precious little and largely inconsequential information people put there -- it's not like Linked In, a CV or other professional profiles of some stripe -- determining whether they merit one's "approbation"/apprehension is anathema to me.
Things got even more bizarre...Betty showed me explicit solicitations she'd received from folks who offer to follow her in return for her following them. I just thought "WTF?" What possesses someone to mutual-follow another on account of the fact of one or the other person following oneself? I mean, really...Neither has said anything of note, as far as they each know; neither has done something for the other; and nothing evinces either party's having done something warranting the other's acclaim, assuming following be the Twitter equivalent of such.
So my question to the Twitterers here is this: do you follow folks merely on account of their following you?
Now, I'm not a Twitter member; thus foreign to me is anything beyond occasionally clicking on a tweet in a news article or an email I receive. The notion that folks must maintain their accounts and contacts is self-evident; however, the prospect of clicking through some 150 profiles and, based on what appears to be the precious little and largely inconsequential information people put there -- it's not like Linked In, a CV or other professional profiles of some stripe -- determining whether they merit one's "approbation"/apprehension is anathema to me.
Things got even more bizarre...Betty showed me explicit solicitations she'd received from folks who offer to follow her in return for her following them. I just thought "WTF?" What possesses someone to mutual-follow another on account of the fact of one or the other person following oneself? I mean, really...Neither has said anything of note, as far as they each know; neither has done something for the other; and nothing evinces either party's having done something warranting the other's acclaim, assuming following be the Twitter equivalent of such.
So my question to the Twitterers here is this: do you follow folks merely on account of their following you?